Resumen de The “Uncomfortables”: El Salvador's "El Faro" and Investigative Literary Journalism
For over two decades, El Faro, the first digital newspaper in Latin America, has practiced a unique style of literary journalism. The origins of El Faro’s award-winning brand of reporting derive from Salvadoran history, the cosmopolitan literary tastes of its founders, and a perceived need for a more investigative media in El Salvador. El Faro’s collaborative editorial approach and insistence that literary narration can complement longform investigation produced a generation of impressive literary journalists. Several books by the best known of El Faro’s journalists have been translated and lauded internationally. In 2010, Óscar Martínez’s crónicas about Central American migrants crossing through Mexico began receiving widespread acclaim, raising El Faro’s profile and winning Martínez international recognition. But his work was part of a long-term collaborative project that also included photography and film, and that reflected the work and spirit of the entire organization. Ten years later, Martínez’s elder brother Carlos, one of El Faro’s first reporters, published a series of crónicas following the first migrant caravan of 2018 to cross Mexico. Returning to the subject that brought El Faro to the world’s attention, his work stands as a monument to the organization and its style.
